Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...odds the funniest and funniest-looking man in the Administration, showed up at Warm Springs. While his chief was paddling about the tepid swimming pool, Governor Black stood nearby, sorrowfully rattled a copy of the Atlanta Constitution which headlined the recurrent story that he was about to resign. "It isn't so much that it's all wrong," he lamented. "But here [it] occurs in the paper on which I was a director for 35 years. That's what you get for being a newspaperman yourself once...
...reliably reported that Mr. Peek served an ultimatum to the effect that unless Mr. Tugwell was taken out of the agricultural building he himself would resign. This may be an exaggeration, of course, of the way Mr. peek feels about it, but there is no doubt that friction has developed, and that Mr. Roosevelt has the task of bringing about harmony...
Followed the famed "March on Bucharest" of 60,000 unarmed, peaceful peasants who squatted, sprawled and slept all over the muddy streets of the capital in protest against the Dynasty of Bratianu. Finally Vintila, far less able and astute than Ion, was forced to resign. Advised by Rumania's three Regents, Boy King Mihai appointed as Premier the National Peasant Party leader, chipper little Professor luliu Maniu, who arrived at the Royal Palace with his new Cabinet list scribbled on a crumpled bit of paper, exclaiming "Here it is!" (TIME...
...Noailles, who allowed his house to be used for sets and invited his socialite friends to take minor rôles. Le Sang d'un Poet, because it followed another de Noailles production which showed bishops turning into skeletons, caused the Vicomte to be 1) forced to resign from the Jockey Club; 2) excommunicated. U. S. audiences are likely to be less disturbed by Novelist Cocteau's nightmare metaphors but they may find them-accompanied by Cocteau's voice, in interpolations for emphasis or elucidation, and by George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible...
...farmer must, therefore resign himself to the situation and try to become as self-sufficient as possible. As a matter of fact, only 25 per cent of all the farmers of the country produce a surplus which can make them dependent upon trade with the industrial world. The rest are self-sufficing and can, if they really have to, support themselves without outside help. It seems certain that the eventual outcome of the present difficulty will therefore be a situation in which every farmer is self-sufficient, selling what surplus he has for what...